The idea is unbelievable. It's an unbelievable idea. The idea
that who you are is whole and complete replete with joy exactly the way
you are and exactly the way you aren't is unbelievable.

That's the point. Really. It is unbelievable that who you
are is whole and complete replete with joy exactly the way you are and
exactly the way you aren't. If it were believable that who
you are is whole and complete replete with joy exactly the way you are
and exactly the way you aren't, you wouldn't get it. You wouldn't get
you're whole and complete replete with joy exactly the way you are and
exactly the way you aren't, if it were believable.

To me, that's a brilliantly fascinatingly provocative observation. It's
good
Zen.
It confirms my experience of how life shows up for me. But if you take
a closer look at it, what Werner's saying is actually
unbelievable. He's saying if you do nothing, if you just
stand there noticing what's going on, it's joyful. That's
unbelievable. Here's what I mean when I say it's unbelievable.

When I say what Werner's saying is unbelievable, I don't mean
what he's saying isn't true. When I say it's
unbelievable, I mean "Don't
believe
it!". What Werner's saying about the joy of simply being is a matter of
experiencing it only. It won't help if you
accept it. Understanding what Werner's saying
would be a royal
distraction
from what's really available here. You can't
believe
it, and out of believing it, produce the joy of simply being. It is,
quite literally, un-believable. It also happens to be
what's so.
You can only experience it.

The ancients, more than once, have indicated this basic experience. To
the ancient Hindus, who you really are is absolute bliss consciousness
ie satchitananda: "sat" absolute, "chit" consciousness,
"ananda" bliss - absolute bliss consciousness. And that's from
five thousand years ago, if not more. It can hardly be considered a
new, novel observation anymore.

Werner's
contribution, however, is new. It is novel.
It's to strip out all the significance, all the meaning, all the
conceptual structure, and all the belief systems surrounding this
ancient observation. Speaking along the
low road to
enlightenment
devoid of proprietary phrases in simple sentences from which holy books
and exclusive ideologies are noticeably and notably absent, Werner
brings the idea of being whole and complete replete with joy exactly
the way you are and exactly the way you aren't, down to the level of
dogshit
reality* which is
arguably the only domain in which it could possibly be true for
everyone with no one and nothing left out.

<aside>

Interestingly enough, it's Werner's language, devoid as it is of
proprietary phrases, articulated in simple sentences from which
holy books and exclusive ideologies are noticeably and notably
absent, which creates the space for honoring and embracing
all holy books and all ideologies ...
or not. That, by the way, is how you empower people. You
create the space for them to choose ... or not. Empowering
people is imparting to them the freedom to choose or not.
Empowerment is very, very simple.

<un-aside>

Consider this: when Werner says "rocks are hard,
water is wet",
he says it as
dogshit reality.
No one has any doubt it's true for everyone. In fact, you already
knew "rocks are hard,
water is wet",
yes? even if, at first, the simple breakthrough profundity of it might
have escaped you. When Werner says "As stupid as it sounds, it's true
there's a sense of joy with simply being with what's there", he's
saying you're whole and complete replete with joy exactly the way you
are and exactly the way you aren't. That's basic
dogshit reality.
That's just for starters. That's where it all starts.

That's unbelievable, waaay too simple for some to accept.
For others, it's not even possible. That is to say, as a
belief it's true it's not possible. It's speaking about
experiencing who you are as whole and complete replete with joy exactly
the way you are and exactly the way you aren't - as simply and as
unambiguously as you would say rocks are hard, as simply and as
unambiguously as you would say
water is wet.
It doesn't require you believe it. It's simple. It's unambiguous. In
fact, don't believe it. It's unbelievable.